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The term "[[death]]" occurs in various contexts in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]].

<blockquote>"The ===Symbolic Death===[[Death]] is constitutive of the [[symbolic]] [[order]], because the [[symbol]] , by standing in [[place]] of the [[thing]] which it [[symbolization|symbolizes]], is equivalent to the murder [[death]] of the that [[thing]]."<ref>{{E}} p.104</ref></blockquote>:

<blockquote>"The [[symbol]] is the [[murder]] of the [[thing]]."<ref>{{E}} p. 104</ref></blockquote> ====Death of the Subject====

<blockquote>"It is in the signifier and insofar as [[The Subject|the subject ]] articulates a signifying [[chain ]] that he comes up against the fact that he may [[disappear ]] from the chain of what he is."<ref>{{S7}} p.295</ref></blockquote>

The [[signifier]] also puts the [[subject]] beyond [[death]], because "the [[signifier]] already considers him [[dead]], by [[nature ]] it immortalizes him."<ref>{{S3}} p.180</ref> ===Dead Father===[[Death]] in the [[symbolic order]] is related to the [[death]] of the [[Father]] (i.e. the murder of the [[father]] of the [[horde]] in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''<ref>{{F}} (1912-13) ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''; [[SE]] XIII, 1</ref>); the [[symbolic]] [[father]] is always a [[dead]] [[father]].

===Second Death=======First Death====

[[Lacan]] talks [[about ]] the "[[second death]]."<ref>{{S7}} p.211</ref>

The [[death|second death]] is that which prevents the regeneration of the [[dead]] [[body]], "the point at which the very cycles of the transformations of nature are annihilated."<ref>{{S7}} p.248</ref> ===Beauty, Being, Pain===The concept of the [[second death]] is used by [[Lacan]] to formulate ideas on various themes: * beauty - "It is the function of beauty to reveal man's relationship to his own death."<ref>{{S7}} p.260, 299</ref>* the direct relationship to [[being]];<ref>{{S7}} p.285</ref> and * the [[sadistic]] [[fantasy]] of inflicting perpetual [[pain]]<ref>{{S7}} p.295</ref>

===Between the Two Deaths=Beauty, Being, Pain====The phrase "[[zone between-two-deathsconcept]] of the [[second death]] is used by [[Lacan]] to formulate [[ideas]]on various themes: * beauty - " ('It is the function of beauty to reveal man's [[l'espace de l'entre-deux-mortsrelationship]]'') designates to his own death."<ref>{{S7}} p. 260, 299</ref>* the zone in which tragedy is played outdirect relationship to [[being]];<ref>{{S7}} p."285</ref> and * the [[sadistic]] [[fantasy]] of inflicting perpetual [[pain]]<ref>{{S8S7}} p.120295</ref>

===Philosophical Death=======Hegel and Heidegger====[[Death]] plays an important [[role ]] in the [[philosophical ]] systems of [[Hegel]] and [[Heidegger]], and [[Lacan]] draws on both of these in his theorisation of the role of [[death]] in [[psychoanalysis]].

===="Absolute Master"====From [[Hegel]] (via [[Kojève]]), [[Lacan]] takes the [[idea ]] that [[death]] is both constitutive of [[man]]'s [[freedom]] and "[[Master|the absolute Master]]."<ref>[[Alexandre Kojève|Kojève, Alexandre]] (1947 [1933-39]) ''[[Kojève|Introduction to the Reading of Hegel]]'', trans. [[James ]] H. Nichols Jr., New York and [[London]]: Basic Books, 1969. [1933-39] p.21).  </ref> [[Death]] plays a crucial part in the [[Hegelian]] [[dialectic]] of the [[master]] and the [[slave]] where it is intimately linked with [[desire]], since the [[master]] only affirms himself for [[others ]] by means of a [[desire]] for [[death]].<ref>{{E}} p.105</ref> ==="Being-For-Death"===From [[Heidegger]], [[Lacan]] takes the idea that [[human]] [[existence]] only takes on [[meaning]] by virtue of the finite limit set by [[death]], so that the [[human]] [[subject]] is properly a "[[death|being-for-death]]". This corresponds to [[Lacan]]'s view that the [[analysand]] should come, via the [[treatment|analytic process]], to assume his own [[mortality]].<ref>{{E}} p.104-5</ref>

In his comparison between [[psychoanalytic treatment]] and the [[game ]] of bridge, [[Lacan]] describes the [[analyst]] as playing the [[position ]] of the "dummy" (in [[French]], ''le mort''; literally, "the dead person").

<blockquote>"The analyst intervenes concretely in the dialectic of [[analysis ]] by pretending that he is dead. . . he makes death [[present]]."<ref>{{E}} p.140</ref></blockquote>

The question which constitutes the [[structure]] of [[obsessional neurosis]] concerns [[death]]; it is the question "Am I dead or alive?"<ref>{{S3}} ppp.179-80</ref>